Ryan P. Cameron, 27, received an 11-year sentence Wednesday in the Oct. 22, 2016, incident involving his girlfriend at a south-side home. Two years of his sentence will be suspended, according to online court records, and he will spend six years in the Indiana Department of Correction with an additional three on home detention with Marion County Community Corrections.

Indianapolis police responded to reports of a domestic dispute just after midnight in the 2300 block of Hanover Drive.

Inside the home, officers found Cameron's then-girlfriend covered in blood and unable to speak clearly because of her injuries, court documents state. She was treated for bleeding inside her skull, a bitten-off ear tip, a damaged tongue, a swollen blood vessel behind her eye and bite marks on her chest, back, arms and face.

She told police she had attempted to get away from Cameron after he began yelling at her after getting home from a friend's wedding. He followed her into a bedroom and then a bathroom, where he repeatedly hit her and put his hands over her mouth, eventually reaching in and pulling at her tongue.

Cameron pleaded guilty to the first count of aggravated battery in August. One additional count of aggravated battery and one count of strangulation were dismissed.

Cameron's sentence also includes a year of domestic violence counseling, a substance abuse evaluation and two years of probation, online records indicate.